Post on 13-Jan-2016
description
MICHAEL and the European Digital Library:
promoting teaching, learning and research
The MICHAEL Project is funded under the European Commission eTEN Programme
David DawsonMuseums, Libraries and Archives Council, UK
Users of MICHAEL
• many different user communities• education• cultural tourism• research• ‘co-ordination’
Researcher
• Associate Professor from Canada
Subjects
What will the EU Digital Library be?
• a common multilingual access point to Europe’s distributed• held in different places by different
organisations - digital cultural heritage, • all types of cultural material
• texts, audiovisual, museum objects, archival records etc
• targeted at delivering rapidly a critical mass of resources to the users.
Building blocks
• The European Library (TEL) as a gateway to the collective resources of national libraries across Europe
• The work ongoing in the Michael and Michael Plus projects in describing and linking digital collections of museums, libraries and archives from different Member States and providing access to these collections
European Digital Library
Collections
Items
MICHAEL TEL
MICHAEL and the European Digital Library
How is the EDL going to work?
• Interoperability Working Group established by the Commission
• Representatives and experts from all sectors
• Discussing high-level issues
• Being taken forward by EDLNet• MLA leading workpackage to involve all
stakeholders
Semantic interoperability2010 functionality
2008 Search functionality
MARCTEL AP
EADArchives AP
SPECTRUM / CIDOC
Museum AP
ONE institution may have both library (MARC) and archives
(EAD) databases
Support for semantic interoperability (eg RDF)
XML Harvesting
Scholarly PublicationsePrints AP
Libraries search
Controlled vocabularies
Controlled vocabularies
Controlled vocabularies
Controlled vocabularies
Existing portals(UK PNDS, FR Guichet, DE BAM etc)
Th
e Eu
rop
ean D
igital L
ibrary
Archives search
Museumssearch
ePrintssearch ‘Who, what, where, when’
Other …specific APs
Controlled vocabularies
Search
Licensing Policies • Users need to know what use conditions and rights apply to a
resource • Administrators need to know what use conditions and rights apply
to a resource • Systems need to know what use conditions and rights apply to a
resource
• Every digital resource has use conditions and rights associated with it: • even if it is freely available • even if it is public domain • even if it is not obvious what they are
• Make the use conditions and rights in your resources explicit: • use a recognised machine readable license if you are able to • state the use conditions and rights that apply to your resources in the
metadata • use the basic controlled vocabulary (to be) developed by the European
Digital Library, and use it consistently • look at existing frameworks for expressing use conditions and rights
Enabling the EDL to promote your contentThe EDL will help you to promote your content to new audiences. Get
involved! Start planning! Your content • Technical standards
• Create your content using open standards • use the MINERVA Technical Guidelines
• Metadata • Use your existing cataloguing standards• Prepare to map your data to domain-specific Dublin Core Application
Profiles – use the European Metadata Registry • Terminologies
• Prepare to take the opportunity offered by the semantic web• Publish your terminologies and thesauri using SKOS
• Registries• Make your content visible • register your content and services with existing registries - such as TEL and
MICHAEL• …
Thank you
david.dawson@mla.gov.uk